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Bristol Bad Film Club makes a Stone Cold start to the new year
Rather like pop singers, American Football stars have rarely been troubled back a lack of self-belief, seemingly reasoning that success in their chosen field of endeavour can be translated with minimal effort to the big screen. One of the least successful acting debuts was made by Brian Bosworth in the 1991 action clunker Stone Cold, which has been selected as Bristol Bad Film Club‘s first screening of 2023.
“Prepare yourself for terrible one-liners, gratuitous levels of unnecessary nudity, glorious mullets, explosions a-plenty, stunning levels of defenestration, punch-ups in biker bars and Lance Henriksen (The Terminator, Aliens, Hard Target) chewing on all the scenery!” enthuses the Other BBFC of this box office flop for which Bosworth bagged a Golden Raspberry award nomination as Worst New Star (sadly, he lost to Bosworth lookalike Vanilla Ice).
The original Columbia Tri-Star poster for Stone Cold
Renowned for the nastiness of its violence (the film had to be cut for an R rating in the US), Stone Cold casts Bosworth as an undercover cop who infiltrates a white supremacist biker gang led by a fella known as Chains Cooper (Lance Henriksen), who has a dastardly plan to assassinate Mississippi’s crime-fighting new state governor.
You can see it on the big screen in the company of a guffawing audience at the Bristol Improv Theatre on Thursday 26 January. Tickets are on sale now, price £5, with all profits going to Help Bristol’s Homeless.
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